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Elizabeth H. Cottrell's avatar

Reading this and other of your posts has lit me up in my multi-year fascination with—and writing about—Connection. It started by identifying what, for me are my life’s four essential Connections: with God, with Self, with Others, and with Nature. I saw these, at first, as four legs of table. But as I’ve studied and read and lived, I realize they’re concentric circles with arrows flowing in both directions between them. In other words, the connections are connected. Now, you are making it clear to me that connection shows up in so many other ways too, such as the connection between early experiences with money and current behavior. And when you listed Awareness as the first step towards making peace with your financial behavior, I recognized this immediately as Connection with Self — self-awareness, self-knowledge. So important! Keep up this excellent series.

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Kristen Franey's avatar

Lasting change comes not from moral judgment but from understanding and reshaping the brain's neural pathways.

This part. Thank you for saying the quiet parts out loud.

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